CTE Timeline

  • Morill Act

  • Civil War Ends

  • Hatch Act

    Scientific studying of Agriculture
  • 1890 2nd Morill Act Land Grant

    Land Grant for colleges and universities that included funding for african-americans
  • Smith-Lever Cooperative Extension Act

    Increased the extension act. Increased the extension work of land grant colleges and university.
  • World War I Begins

  • Smith Hughes Act

    promotion of training in agriculture, trades and industries, commerce, and home economics in the secondary schools.
  • World War 1 Ends

  • George-Reed Act

    focused only on agriculture and home economics
  • Beginning of the Great Depression

  • George Dean Act

    Federal Funds for Business Education
  • End of the Great Depression

    The End date is not exact
  • World War II Begins

  • World War II Ends

  • George Barden Act

    Added more money to the George Dean Act of 1936 but had a bigger focus on Vets returning to the workforce
  • Beginning of African American Civil Rights Movement

    date is not exact
  • National Defense Act

    Enacted to assist state and local school systems in boosting instruction in science, mathematics and foreign languages, as well as to improve state statistical services. Data processing training was also included as it was considered a technical occupation necessary to national defense.
  • Area Redevelopment Act

    The Area Redevelopment Act was passed to assist in occupational training programs for the unemployed persons, and it appropriated10 million in DOL subsistence payments to unemployed workers that were in jobs training programs to that they could get a new job. These jobs had to in categories within vocational training programs,
  • Manpower and Training Act

    first major federal jobs training program, and it focused on providing training in that taught new and improved skill
  • Vocational Education Act

    introduced work study programs, reduced federal control, promoted gender equity. It also provided a federal definition for vocational education: "organized educational programs which are directly related to the preparation of individuals for paid or unpaid employment, or for additional preparation for a career requiring other than a baccalaureate or advanced degree
  • Civil Rights Act

    African-American Vocational Student organization
  • Civil Rights Movement is Successful

    date is not exact
  • Comprehensive Employment and Training Act

    consolidate federal job training programs and provided block grants on the state and local levels. It was designed to assist persons that were unemployed, underemployed and considered economically disadvantaged.
  • Job Training Partnership Act

    The business partnership expanded, and new programs were added for displaced and disadvantaged workers who were out of work due to America's reduced manufacturing.
  • Carl Perkins Vocational Act

    Money to support vocational education
  • Carl Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act

    organized educational programs offering a sequence of courses which are directly related to the preparation of individuals in paid or unpaid employment in current or emerging occupations requiring other than a baccalaureate or advanced degree
  • School to Work Act

  • Carl Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act

    This act focused on "improving student achievement and preparing students for post-secondary education, further learning, and careers.while promoting reform, innovation, and continuous improvement in vocational and technical education to ensure that students acquire the skills and knowledge they need to meet challenging State academic standards and industry-recognized skill standards, and a wide range of opportunities in high-skill, high-wage careers
  • No Child Left Behind

  • Carl Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act

    provide dan increased focus on the academic achievement of career and technical education students, strengthen the connections between secondary and postsecondary education, and improve state and local accountability